Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Jul 1999 16:08:30 -0400 | From | "Ethan C. Baldridge" <> | Subject | Re: GPF, Oops on system halt |
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Mark Hahn wrote: > > > > I believe this is a fault (bug) in the APM bios. > > > disabling apm would probably solve it. > > > > We tried disabling apm (and everything on the same menu in the BIOS), > > but it still does it. > > there's linux-kernel speculation that the problem is that your > bios's apm code assumes real-mode or dos/win/etc. there was a patch > sometime in the past month or so that switched to real mode before > calling apm bios functions, and this is reported to fix the problem.
I'll look for it - but still, wouldn't disabling apm in the bios stop the oopsen anyway? It's an AOpen bios and motherboard, if that helps anything.
--Ethan
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